Rich Club Chaweng Beach Road Live Cam

The bar at Rich Club faces Chaweng Beach Road on Ko Samui, and the camera looks down on its tables and the traffic. Flags of a few dozen countries hang over the seating.

Chaweng packs the nightlife of the island into about two kilometres of frontage. The beach is a block behind the bars, and almost everything on this side of Samui faces the road rather than the sea.

The island runs on its connections to the mainland: electricity arrives by submarine cable and much of the water by pipeline, and both have failed in peak season before now. The resident population is around seventy thousand and the visitor numbers are several times that.